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The landscape looked very different before Perea arrived.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026
The sudden supply crunch among oil supertankers—known as very large crude carriers, or VLCCs—has boosted the cost of hauling oil through the strait to the highest on record.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026
“My parents ... were very, very private,” she said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026
He said areas of the estate had been opened up "for the public to enjoy", but "the mountain is very precious and we've tried to protect that and be good custodians for many years".
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026
In that drop of water, Leeuwenhoek found a whole new planet of very, very small life forms.
From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman
Yet, on my conscience, there are verier knaves desire to live, for all he be a Roman; and there be some of them too that die against their wills.
From Cymbeline by William Shakespeare
Ne'er did I see verier light in earth or sky, than flashed into her face as their eyes met.
From A Brother To Dragons and Other Old-time Tales by Amélie Rives
How dare we, that may gaze not on the sun, Gaze on this verier one?
From Studies in Song, A Century of Roundels, Sonnets on English Dramatic Poets, The Heptalogia, Etc From Swinburne's Poems Volume V. by Algernon Charles Swinburne
Is there a verier child than I am now?
From Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions Together with Death's Duel by John Donne
If the Fall is a tragedy, Collier feels, as petulantly as the veriest college sophomore, then God is to blame.
From Time Magazine Archive
The result is that after meeting Bach, even the veriest cynic is likely to find himself shamelessly rooting for Jonathan Livingston Seagull and curiously willing to forgive the book its literary trespasses.
From Time Magazine Archive
Facing the veriest day of her young life this week, Luci was clearly determined to savor every precious moment of it, public and private.
From Time Magazine Archive
The veriest Fourth Estate tyro should know that a police officer faced with an unruly mob is too busy to check his press card.
From Time Magazine Archive
For the veriest trifle she would have gone down again.
From Sophia A Romance by Stanley John Weyman
